WSP UK

Contact:	Madelon Armstrong
Region:	England - South East
Location:	Hertford
Category:	Transport planning
Closes:	31 Jan 2020
Salary:	Unspecified
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Transport Planner, Hertford

Job Description

About the Role

As one of the world’s leading engineering, professional services and technical consultancy firms, at WSP, we’re passionate about the big questions. And big answers, naturally. For us that’s all about reaching beyond the expected to do work that’ll make a profound impact felt long into the future.

An Transport Planner is required, to join the Hertford Office, to support the on-going growth of the transportation business with the specific aims of supporting both our public and private sector teams and capitalise on emerging market opportunities. The candidate would be supporting clients across the north of the UK with a team that is also supportive of initiatives in Central and Southern England and Internationally.

The opportunity will primarily help support existing and growing workloads for a range of regional clients in North, South and West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Tyne & Wear, and support the regional and national public transport planning team.

The transport team across the London, Cambridge and Hertford offices offers clients a wide range of multi-disciplinary and cross-sector services including but not limited to; micro-simulation modelling; signal design, transport assessments, scheme business cases and appraisals, demand forecasting and validation, land use modelling, local junction design, road safety audits and site appraisals, master-planning, public transport studies and public consultation.

The team currently has a range of regional highway and public transport modelling projects, micro simulation modelling, scheme appraisal and development assessment work. These are for a variety of clients, including local authorities, government bodies, LEPs and enterprise partnerships and private developers, with an expanding international portfolio.

The role presents an excellent opportunity to progress your career and work within a successful team on a wide range of regionally, nationally and internationally based transport planning and appraisal projects, with opportunities to diversify modelling outputs and appraisal techniques into new and innovative markets and products, including those of a non-transport background.

A Typical Day would include:

Strong emphasis on supporting project delivery.
To provide support to the northern region Senior Management team, specifically to capitalise on existing/emerging client relationships, framework commissions and evolving regional governance structures.
It is envisaged that the role would be primarily public sector, but will respond flexibly to the opportunities presented by devolution, Growth Deals and be supportive of major private sector regeneration opportunities.
To strengthen and broaden our technical offering.

About You

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

Supporting our team in the provision of strategic advice to clients on development investment decisions and strategies, in relation to transport and other engineering factors
Good interpersonal skills
Ability to deliver to tight, competing and stretching deadlines
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Knowledge of transport policy and appraisal issues and techniques, and how transportation solutions can be used to support and enhance other areas wider planning and policy.
Broad understanding of UK WebTAG
Ability to work well in a team environment, sometimes with limited supervision

Desirable Skills:

Ability to interpret and apply transport models with minimum supervision
Experience of scheme appraisal and business case preparation or updating
Professional membership of a relevant institution.

Clear and concise communication, being able to convey complex issues and communicate persuasively, is essential – you will need to demonstrate you can produce high quality documentation and reports tailored to client requirements, with clear justification of conclusions.

You must be able to understand context, and interpret and clarify client requirements so that appropriate solutions are developed, and appropriately explained to clients, colleagues and co−professionals.

You will be educated to degree level or equivalent, with relevant professional qualification or higher degree and membership of professional bodies being desirable, alongside ability to learn and develop new skills rapidly in response to diverse project requirements.

About Us

What if we can?

What if we can have work-life balance? What if we can be rewarded in ways that support our individual needs? What if we can be accepted for who we are? Here at WSP – we can!

WSP recognizes that work is only one part of our lives and making time for the other things in our life is important – be that our families, our friends or ourselves. So, if working from home, working part-time or having flexible start and finish time will help with this let us know as part of your application.

As well as rewarding you with competitive pay, WSP offers standard benefits including a 37.5 hour working week, 25 days annual leave, pension schemes, life assurance, personal accident cover and paid professional subscriptions, and some not so standard benefits as part of our flexible benefits scheme – so if you would like to hop on a new bike (cycle to work scheme) or thrill the family with your Lego building skills (Discount at Legoland Windsor) – WSP can help!

Be you, be happy - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects and maximizes the contribution individuals can bring to WSP. We recognise the benefits that people with varying backgrounds and experiences can bring. Our VIBE (LGBT + employee network) and WiL (Women in Leadership) networks work with the business to help ensure we continue to promote the right environment to enable LGBT+ and female employees to reach their full potential, and to ensure we continue to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

A little about us:

Our work is serious, and serious fun. We create homes for penguins, help you get from A to B faster and safer, create inspiring places to live and work, and shape the skylines of our cities.

We value our people and our reputation. Having a diverse and robust workforce enables us to look for answers, not problems, and we pride ourselves on offering clients clever, imaginative, future-facing solutions. If you are interested in finding ways to help society thrive, at home and further afield, an exciting career could be waiting for you here.

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